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...York area expanded in April at the slowest pace in five months."If the regional manufacturingeconomies are slowing, it signals the national manufacturingeconomy is slowing as well," said Neil Dutta, an economist at Bank of America Corp...

...researcher with the Brookings Institution said people have been shoved out of the Rust Belt by the collapse of the manufacturingeconomy for more than a generation, and drawn to the Sun Belt by more jobs and a lower cost of living. In Buffalo...

...respectively, but industrial power usage dropped 6.9 percent. Mr. Franklin blamed a general slowdown in the manufacturingeconomy for the industrial slide. But the company boosted profits by increasing sales to other utilities, including...

...according to the report by National Association of Purchasing Management. The purchasing managers' index of the manufacturingeconomy was at 55.8 percent in March, down from 56.9 in February but well above the reading of 50 that indicates...

...military bases to federal belt-tightening aren't immune to the hard times. "These cities are rooted in older manufacturingeconomies," Mr. Cuomo said. "They need to be retrofitted for a new economy." That retrofit comes with a pair of...

...968 thanks to a late pullback. Manufacturing doldrums may end ATLANTA -- Current weakness in the Southeastern manufacturingeconomy could be short-lived, according to the most recent monthly survey of plant officials conducted by the Federal...

...Association of Purchasing Management -- one of the first out on January -- showed growth decelerating in the manufacturingeconomy. And a third report showed construction spending stagnant at the end of 1997. Economists said the mix of factors...

...the declines pulled the overall index down. A reading above 50 percent in the overall index indicates the manufacturingeconomy is generally expanding, while a reading below 50 percent is a sign of contraction. Another index tracking inflation...

...union ranks, according to Lane Windham, southern regional communications director. A national shift from a manufacturingeconomy to a service one has prompted unions like UNITE to organize service workers, she said. Corporate downsizing...

...startled by the National Association of Purchasing Management survey released Thursday, which found the nation's manufacturingeconomy accelerated in December. Most economists had expected a slight drop in last month's figure after an unexpectedly...